Friends' Meeting House, Hartshill
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Friends' Meeting House, Hartshill
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 12 Oct 2009
Quaker Meeting House on Castle Road, Hartshill, viewed from the front lawn. The building dates from the early 1970s. George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, was born in 1624 about 4km to the north-east, in the Leicestershire village of Drayton-in-the-Clay (known today as Fenny Drayton), and Hartshill is the nearest Quaker meeting existing today. Early Friends, as Quakers are known, met for worship in the barn of Nathaniel Newton, who knew Fox. In 1720 Newton had the first Meeting House built in the village, later replaced by a brick building. He also founded a boarding school. Both later fell into disuse, but the meeting was revived in 1868. https://thefriend.org/article/the-quakers-of-hartshill
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Image Location
Latitude
52.547109
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-1.520545